Bridge needed at Cedar Ford - 1910

KIRK, LAURENCE

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 2/24/2012 at 22:03:06

The "Lockridge Herald"
Friday, April 1, 1910
Page 1, Column 5

$800 IS RAISED.
Plans for Bridge at Cedar Ford.

Jacob KIRK, Albert LAURENCE, and in fact all the farmers in that neighborhood are working earnestly for a bridge across Skunk River at Cedar Ford. It is certainly a much needed improvement as the nearest bridge to the north is about four miles and the one south about eight miles. A large part of the year the water is too high to ford and for a number of years farmers living on the other side of the river have been obliged to use boats to convey produce, merchandise and machinery across the river on the way to and from Lockridge. It seems to us that the day has come for us to pass from this primeval method of crossing streams and we know that the people in this end of Jefferson County are as progressive and enterprising and as prosperous as people anywhere, and we believe they will "keep on keeping on" until the bridge is a reality. The merchants of Lockridge readily saw that the bridge would be a great help to the town by bringing in a large amount of trade which would not otherwise reach Lockridge and they quickly responded with something over $200 in subscriptions and altogether over $800 have been subscribed.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I am not related to the person(s) mentioned.